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rioters vs paraders

Nohaaj
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Yesterday, President Trump addressed the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago.

One of the confrontational questions was about Trump's commitment to pardon the J6 "rioters". He tried to explain the difference between the two-tiered justice system, and compared the pro-Hamas rioters in DC last weekend, vs the J6 rioters, and the disparity between the persecutions. I am not sure he made his case that well. But it is indeed a great comparison.

This morning, our local paper had a headline about another of those paraders, who was arrested YESTERDAY. From the article: His charges:

"He is charged with four federal counts, including entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. According to the criminal complaint, Sartor was inside the Capitol building for 1 minute and 15 seconds. He is not accused of committing any physical acts of violence."

Perhaps even waved in by the Capital police.

This compared to the anarchists last weekend defacing every sacred monument in DC. Their intent was to dismantle and topple the evil US regime. No arrests, no charges, and no persecutions.

It is a great case for Trump to make.

delenda est

Edit: there are reports of arrests, but I expect like almost all of the previous pro-hamas protest arrests from the "elite" university events, they will be summarily dismissed.

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  • Postmodern Hoplite@PostmodernHoplite

    I strongly recommend this post for promotion to the Main Feed.

    I have nothing particularly meaningful to add to the discussion, other than expressing my rising anger that three-plus years after the riot, the Department of Justice (or perhaps more accurately, "Justice") is still persecuting those who were present at the riot. This is the priority of effort and resources for Federal law enforcement?

  • MarciN@MarciN

    This prolonged persecution--the media hype of the events that day, arrests, the imprisonments--is a violation of the spirit of the Constitution which seeks to protect public dissent. Stopping it and getting these unfortunate people released from prison is reason number 1 to vote the Republican ticket in November.

    But I think what's as important is the glimpse it is giving us all into modern "law enforcement" at the state and federal levels of government. This hunt for the J6 protesters is being done completely by people using existing computer software. It's like all of the horrible futuristic movies we have ever watched in which the victim can't get away from the surveillance.

  • Stad@Stad
    ReplyingtoMarciN

    MarciN (View Comment):

    This prolonged persecution–the media hype of the events that day, arrests, the imprisonments–is a violation of the spirit of the Constitution which seeks to protect public dissent.

    Exactly! They deserve a pardon not for what they did, but for the way they've been treated. If the DOJ had started the legal process swiftly, granted bail, and asked for proper sentences instead of extreme ones, most folks would probably agree with them . . .

  • Sisyphus@Sisyphus
    ReplyingtoStad

    MarciN (View Comment):
    This prolonged persecution–the media hype of the events that day, arrests, the imprisonments–is a violation of the spirit of the Constitution which seeks to protect public dissent.

    Stad (View Comment):

    Exactly! They deserve a pardon not for what they did, but for the way they’ve been treated. If the DOJ had started the legal process swiftly, granted bail, and asked for proper sentences instead of extreme ones, most folks would probably agree with them . . .

    Instead, we got political theater of the sort one would expect from stealers of elections. They must imbue fear in the attempt to stave off the inevitable nemesis.

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